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From After: How America Confronted The September 12 Era

The Main Characters

John Ashcroft: United States Attorney General

James Brosnahan: Lead defense lawyer for John Walker Lindh

Michael Cartier: Business information systems manager at cable television company in New York; co-founder, Give Your Voice; brother of September 11 victim James Cartier, an electrician working in the North Tower

Larry Cox: President and CEO, Memphis­Shelby County Airport Authority

Kenneth Feinberg: Special Master, Victim Compensation Fund

Bernadine Healy: President and CEO, American Red Cross

Salvatore Iacono: Proprietor, Continental Shoe Repair (two blocks from Ground Zero)

Robert Lindemann: Senior Border Patrol Agent, U.S. Border Patrol (Detroit)

Brian Lyons: Recovery Supervisor, Ground Zero, and brother of September 11 victim Michael Lyons, member of New York City Fire Department, Rescue Squad 41

Sergio Magistri: President and CEO, InVision Technologies (Silicon Valley)

Kevin McCabe: Chief Inspector, Contraband Enforcement Team, United States Customs Service, Port of New York (based in Elizabeth, New Jersey)

Dean O'Hare: Chairman and CEO, Chubb Corporation

Tom Ridge: Director, White House Office of Homeland Security, and Secretary, Department of Homeland Security

Anthony Romero: Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union

Gale Rossides: Associate Undersecretary for Training and Quality Performance, U.S. Transportation Security Administration, Department of Transportation

Charles Schumer: Senior senator from New York, and husband of Iris Weinshall

Larry Silverstein: President and CEO, Silverstein Properties, real estate developer (New York City)

Eileen Simon: Harrington Park, New Jersey, widow of September 11 victim Michael Simon, an energy trader at Cantor Fitzgerald

Iris Weinshall: Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation, and wife of Charles Schumer

Edmund Woollen: Vice President, Raytheon Company (Virginia)

Other Key Figures

Hollie Bart: Sal Iacono's pro bono lawyer

Joshua Bolten: Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff, the White House

Robert Bonner: Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service

Michael Byrne: Senior Director of Response and Recovery, White House Office of Homeland Security

Andrew Card, Jr.: Chief of Staff, the White House

Michael Chertoff: Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice

David Crane: Senior Policy Advisor to Senator Trent Lott, and then a lobbyist representing real estate interests

Mitchell Daniels, Jr.: Director, Office of Management and Budget, the White House

Mary Delaquis: Area Service Port Director, U.S. Customs Service (based in Pembina, North Dakota)

Ali Erikenoglu: Electrical engineer (Paterson, New Jersey)

Richard Falkenrath: Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of Policy and Plans, White House Office of Homeland Security

Jennie Farrell: Co-founder, Give Your Voice, and sister of Michael Cartier and September 11 victim James Cartier, an electrician working in the North Tower

Joshua Gotbaum: CEO, September 11th Fund

Mark Hall: Senior Border Patrol Agent, U.S. Border Patrol (Detroit)

Kip Hawley: Director, go teams, Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation

Mark Isakowitz: Washington lobbyist for private airline security companies, and then for the insurance industry

Michael Jackson: Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation

Syed Jaffri: Pakistani immigrant, detained in September after dispute with Bronx landlord

Lee Kreindler: Plaintiffs lawyer specializing in representing victims of air disasters

General Bruce Lawlor: Senior Director of Protection and Prevention, White House Office of Homeland Security

Elaine Lyons: Westchester, New York, widow of September 11 victim Michael Lyons, member of New York City Fire Department, Rescue Squad 41

David McLaughlin: Chairman, American Red Cross

Norman Mineta: Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation

Sohail Mohammed: Attorney and Muslim community leader, Paterson, New Jersey (represented Ali Erikenoglu)

Barry Ostrager: Lead lawyer representing Swiss Reinsurance Company in suit against Larry Silverstein

Hugo Poza: Vice President, Homeland Security, Raytheon Company (Virginia)

Eliot Spitzer: New York State Attorney General

Herbert Wachtell: Lead lawyer representing Larry Silverstein

Copyright © 2003 by Steven Brill